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i have plants on my balcony! parsly and oregano,
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lettuce,
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and rosemary! this weekend was warm and sunny, and the perfect time to start my balcony garden, which i've been day dreaming about for the last week or so.
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i found this adorable mini-sunflower growing kit at a 100 yen shop last week,
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and i love the look of these veggie growing containers from muji, just burlap covered plastic.
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and here are the caterpillers! the very hungry caterpiller, that is. available on blue, in my
shop.
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if you want to start your own plants from seed, there was
feature by ashley on design sponge last week. having grown up in the country, with a whole room in our house that was full of seed starting trays for several months every spring, i've never been that careful with calculating or planning. and once i moved away to college, and started several new gardens at several new houses, i also learned to appreciate the easiness of working from starts. but now that i am starting a new container gargen in kyoto, i realize that i don't know the growning season here, or the microclimate on my south facing balcony. my strategy is pretty basic: 1) i'm going to quiz everyone i know who gardens, and 2) i'm going to just buy plants when the starts are sold, which is a pretty good indication that it's the right time to set them out. there is also a lot of container gardening here, and i'm excited to try out some local varieties and see what happens!
1 comment:
It all looks fantastic. My mom always says just be careful you have passed the last freeze of the year before you set the seedlings out. I bet you know this from the looks of your patio!! beautiful. good luck.
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